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Michael W. Gray

Michael W. Gray

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Genetics

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91
Citations
30077
World Ranking
1037
National Ranking
31

Molecular Biology

D-Index
91
Citations
30077
World Ranking
721
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Michael W. Gray is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 22 publications in these areas. Subfields of interest include Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Immunology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered by their work involve:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Michael W. Gray has frequently published in venues such as BMC Biology and Nucleic Acids Research, each with two publications, as well as Genome Research, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The following recent papers demonstrate the scientist's research output:

  • The draft nuclear genome sequence and predicted mitochondrial proteome of Andalucia godoyi, a protist with the most gene-rich and bacteria-like mitochondrial genome, 2020, BMC Biology
  • Chromosome-scale assemblies of Acanthamoeba castellanii genomes provide insights into Legionella pneumophila infection-related chromatin reorganization, 2022, Genome Research
  • Recent expansion of metabolic versatility in Diplonema papillatum, the model species of a highly speciose group of marine eukaryotes, 2023, BMC Biology
  • Analysis of diverse eukaryotes suggests the existence of an ancestral mitochondrial apparatus derived from the bacterial type II secretion system, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cryo-EM structure of the highly atypical cytoplasmic ribosome of Euglena gracilis, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Among frequent collaborators with Michael W. Gray are Matt Sarrasin, B. Franz Lang, Gertraud Burger, Matus Valach, and Julius Lukeš.

In recognition of their contributions, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and the Origin of Eukaryotes

    B F Lang;M W Gray;G Burger

  • An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature

    Lang Bf;Burger G;O'Kelly Cj;Cedergren R

  • The endosymbiont hypothesis revisited.

    Michael W. Gray

  • Pseudouridine in RNA: what, where, how, and why.

    Michael Charette;Michael W. Gray

  • Mitochondrial genomes: anything goes.

    Gertraud Burger;Michael W Gray;B Franz Lang

  • The tree of eukaryotes

    Patrick J. Keeling;Gertraud Burger;Dion G. Durnford;B. Franz Lang

  • RNA Editing in Plant Mitochondria

    Patrick S. Covello;Michael W. Gray

  • The origin and early evolution of mitochondria

    Michael W Gray;Gertraud Burger;B Franz Lang

  • Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven

    M W Gray;W F Doolittle

  • A compilation of large subunit (23S and 23S-like) ribosomal RNA structures: 1993.

    Robin Ray Gutell;Michael W. Gray;Murray N. Schnare

  • The evolutionary origins of organelles

    Michael W. Gray

  • Origin and evolution of mitochondrial DNA.

    Michael W. Gray

  • On the evolutionary descent of organisms and organelles: a global phylogeny based on a highly conserved structural core in small subunit ribosomal RNA

    Michael W. Gray;David Sankoff;Robert J. Cedergren

  • Evolution of organellar genomes.

    Michael W Gray

  • GENOME STRUCTURE AND GENE CONTENT IN PROTIST MITOCHONDRIAL DNAS

    Michael W. Gray;B. Franz Lang;Robert Cedergren;G. Brian Golding

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Mitochondria of Protists

    Michael W. Gray;B. Franz Lang;Gertraud Burger

  • The Closest Unicellular Relatives of Animals

    B.F. Lang;B.F. Lang;C. O'Kelly;C. O'Kelly;T. Nerad;M.W. Gray;M.W. Gray

  • Mitochondrial Genome Organization and Expression in Higher Plants

    and C J Leaver;M W Gray

  • Origin and ,evolution of organelle genomes

    Michael W gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Gertraud Burger
Gertraud Burger University of Montreal
B. Franz Lang
B. Franz Lang University of Montreal
Robert Cedergren
Robert Cedergren University of Montreal
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Monique Turmel
Monique Turmel Université Laval
David Sankoff
David Sankoff University of Ottawa
Andrew J. Roger
Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University

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